"There has to be a chaos inside you to give birth to a dancing star."

Fiedrich Nietzsche

It's so much easier to self-destruct gradually than to try and pull yourself together, isn't it?

" Happiness is a bubble on a bar of soap
that changes colour as an iris does,
and that bursts when you touch it."

Balzac

"It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward."

Randy Pausch

"Our liberty is based on what others do not know about us."

Solzhenitsyn

Some things are easy to start, but it's only once you've completed them that they take on their true meaning.

"Those who fall often bring down with them those who come to their aid."

Stefan Zweig

Voltaire wrote in 1764: "The most useful books are those of which readers themselves compose half."

Reading is a pact of generosity between author and reader, each puts his trust in the other, each counts on the other.

"The day you can show your weakness without the other using it to assert his strength is the day you will be loved."

Cesare Pavese

"There are many things we can give to those we love: words, peace, pleasure. You gave me the most precious gift of all: missing you. I couldn't be without you, and when I saw you I missed you even more."

Christian Bobin

"True love is when two dreams meet and escape, hand in hand, from the real world."

Romain Gary

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

Randy Pausch